Why Zuma’s 4th Wife Chose a Polygamous Marriage
I had the pleasure of meeting Jacob Zuma’s 4th wife this week, Bongi Ngema Zuma for an interview with the BBC’s Lerato Mbele. Bongi, is a former IBM executive. She is the most prominent of his wives and is the one who accompanies him on trips abroad. Bongi also plays an active role, through her [...]
Contemporary South African Photography
This is a feature that I shot for the BBC about the first major exhibition of contemporary South African photography. It’s called Figures and Fiction and is currently on at the V&A museum in London. The feature is narrated by the curator, Tamar Garb, who is originally from South Africa. I got the impression that [...]
The Road to Freedom
This is my latest multimedia project that I made for a charity in South Africa. The country has one of the highest levels of domestic violence in the world, despite introducing legislation in 1998 to try combat the problem. Sadly, there is often little empathy or comprehension of the consequences for the victims of domestic [...]
Faces of Mbekweni
These are some of the amazing people I met in Mbekweni, a South African township, about 60km north of Cape Town. I went there earlier in the year to work on a multimedia documentary for a local charity, called Enza, that helps abused women. I’m hoping to finish the documentary by the end of the [...]
Whoonga: A New Twist in the Fight Against Aids
A story I filmed during my recent trip to South Africa with reporter Jonah Fisher, is being broadcast on BBC World this weekend. It focuses on a new drug that is becoming popular in the country’s townships. The drug is called Whoonga and is a cocktail of various substances. One of these is the anti-retroviral [...]
South Africa Is The Real Winner
The 2010 World Cup is now over, the vuvuzela’s have been put away and South Africa has proved all the critics wrong by hosting one of the most successful events ever staged. Its been great to see all the positive press the rainbow nation has received over the last month. The front page of the [...]
Viva South Africa
We are coming up to the half way mark of the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Its great to see so many amazing images coming out of the country. It makes me proud to be South African. In the run up to the event, South Africa got some bad press. The media focused on [...]
Cape Town’s Most Colourful Neighbourhood
I’ve started to go through my travel photos from last year and came across these images I took in Bo-Kaap. Its an area of Cape Town, known for its brightly painted buildings. I spent an afternoon wondering around its cobbled streets and took these shots of the area’s contrasting colours and details. [...]
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